Week of Friday, July 10, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 28
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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT: Top picks for the week
3. TUNES: HCT ‘Alice in Wonderland’
4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Chicken in a Barrel
6. BOOK REVIEW: All about Guns
7. CHECK DA SCENE: Kauai Museum Paina
OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN BON DANCE 7:30 P.M. WAIMEA HIGASHI HONGWANJI Food, music, games and entertainment.
BON DANCE 7:30 P.M. WAIMEA HIGASHI HONGWANJI Food, music, games and entertainment.
BIBLE SCHOOL 9 A.M. TO NOON CALVARY CHAPEL A Mount Kilimanjaro themed vacation Bible school free for children 4 years old through 5th grade.
PORTUGUESE FESTIVAL 10:30 A.M. TO 2 P.M. KAUAI MUSEUM COURTYARD Learn about the Portuguese culture on Kauai with cooking demonstrations, exhibits, food and entertainment.
BAHAI COMMEMORATION 11:30 A.M. TO 2:30 P.M. LYDGATE SMALL PAVILION
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CRAFT FAIR 9 A.M. TO 3 P.M. CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC NURTURE LAWAI DAY 9 A.M. TO 1 P.M. LAWAI INTERNATIONAL CENTER Nurture the grounds and plant orchids with lunch provided. 639-4300 HEALING TOUCH 8:30 A.M. TO 5:30 P.M. ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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SLACK KEY GUITAR 3 TO 5 P.M. HANALEI COMMUNITY CENTER Traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concert. $20 COMMUNAL HARDENING 4 TO 6 P.M. ST PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, KEKAHA Join the Kekaha Community Garden membership for 2 hours of food, fun and health. KAUAI KIRTAN 6 TO 8:30 P.M. ANAHOLA Sing, dance and feel the vibrational sounds of energetic meditation chanting kirtan-guided yoga breathing and spiritual insights from sacred yoga texts with a vegetarian dinner. www. kauaikirtan.com, 551-6610
SUMMER STARS GALA FUNDRAISER 5:30 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Learn about the Portuguese culture on Kauai with cooking demonstrations, food, entertainment and more from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Kauai Museum.
MON TUE WED NITE CLUB 2-STEP 7 TO 8:30 P.M. KILAUEA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Class costs $20 for 5-week series or $5 drop-in. COMMUNITY YOGA 6 TO 7:30 P.M. NAWILIWILI YACHT CLUB Hosted by the Kauai Sailing Association, weekly. Bring your own yoga mat or towel. 346-7671
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WEIGHT WATCHERS 5:30 P.M. ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Weekly Weight Watchers meetings held same time on Tuesday. HULA CLASS 4 P.M. KOLOA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Halau Hula O Leilani is having hula classes for ages 4 to 12. 651-0682
HULA CLASS 5 P.M. KAUAI MUSEUM Hula class with Kumu Puni Patrick. Must be a Kauai Museum or Daughters of Hawaii member. NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM 7 P.M. Short film followed by samples, talk with certified-nutritional adviser Jane Riley. Free. Ongoing event, call for location. 212-1451
START A BUSINESS 9 A.M. TO NOON LIHUE PLANTATION BUILDING Participants will learn about entrepreneurship, forms of business organization, key ingredients for business success, steps involved in starting your own business, sources of capital and services offered by the Hawaii SBDC Network as well as other resources for the startup business. $20, 241-3148
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Rising ‘Stars’
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saac Dubey, 11, is back for the fourth straight year. So is 12-year-old Sabryn Rudinoff. Both enjoy the stage — and even the spotlight — that comes with singing and acting with the Hawaii Children’s Theatre. “I love it,â€? Dubey said. “It gives me a very good opportunity to shine in any way possible.â€? Same goes for Rudinoff. “I love all the people and how you get to be yourself,â€? she said. “If you feel like a fool, that’s how you know you’re doing it right. Get out there, sing, dance, give it your all.â€? Nearly 100 youth ages 8-13 are involved in morning and afternoon sessions at HCT’s long-running and wildly popular Summer Stars five-week program at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse. The morning sessions focus on workshops and developing specific skills such as singing, acting and dancing, and includes a new workshop each week.Â
HCT readies youth in five weeks to perform ‘Alice in Wonderland’Â
at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center. For some, it’s their introduction to the world of theater. For others, like Dubey and Rudinoff, it’s another summer on stage. Either way, those training for Alice will get their chance before a crowd and even learn about costumes, makeup and props. “They get the whole nine yards when it comes to putting on a theater production,â€? Blachowiak said.Â
And they do it in a short window, which can be challenging, Hanson said, so that’s where HCT’s strong staff and supportive board play key roles. “Without this structure, we wouldn’t be able to do it,â€? she said. There are nearly 50 kids in the morning session, which costs $375, and nearly 50 more in the afternoon program, which costs $395. About 50 are registered for both.Â
Summer Stars, which began in the 1990s, has a strong following because of its impact on youth, Blachowiak said. She said there are numerous stories about a reserved, shy child blooming with HCT. “It’s amazing what happens to kids when they perform on stage,� she said. Hanson agreed. “You give them that encouragement and that
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Isaac Dubey sings during a Summer Stars afternoon session at the Puhi Theatrical Warehouse.
“It’s a well-rounded taste of all things theater,� said Debra Blachowiak, HCT secretary. The afternoon program is
a crash-course preparing for a live production. This year, it’s “Alice in Wonderland JR.,� directed by Rebecca Hanson, slated for July 17, 18 and 19
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uicy barbecue chicken and ribs that practically melt off the bone await Chicken in a Barrel diners who’ve worked up an appetite perusing the stores at Ching Young Village, the shopping center in the heart of this famous North Shore surf town. “It’s a meat lover’s paradise,� said co-owner and manager Brent Bierma, a
The most popular chicken and rib plate features a quarter chicken, two baby back ribs.
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On a recent afternoon Bierma traced the lineage of the recipes on the menu — all family trade secrets — as he lifted the hood on one of the restaurant’s namesake barrels to reveal a dozen crisp, perfectly browned quarter chickens spinning in the smoker. “We say it’s off the hook barbecue because we literally cook our meats on hooks in the barrels,� Bierma said with a smile. This is authentic barbecue cooking — a 2- to 3-hour process — and it’s what makes Chicken in a Barrel’s meats so good, Bierma said. The meats are smoked with charcoal and a local kiawe wood that enhances the flavor. “Just seeing the faces of the people who eat our meats who love barbecue makes all the hard work worth it,� he said. “People who know good barbecue love us because we do it right.� The no-frills, fami-
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ly-owned restaurant is the Chicken in a Barrel brand’s second location. The first location opened in Kapaa six years ago. The open-air Hanalei restaurant has been smoking chicken, ribs, pork, beef and local buffalo in barrels for half as long. The chicken and rib plate — a quarter piece of chicken and two baby back ribs for $15.55 — is by far the most popular menu item. There are also Kauai beef burgers, tacos, burritos and delectable sides like the homemade chili beans.
Prices range from $5.95 for a classic Kauai beef hamburger to $16.50 for a half rack of baby back ribs. There’s a kids menu, with staples like grilled cheese, as well as two kinds of salads. The meat rubs and barbecue sauce offerings are all homemade and sold by the bottle at the restaurant’s Hanalei and Kapaa locations. Soon, the company hopes to sell them in local stores as well. Though Chicken in a Barrel is a Kauai-born and based business, the company has
big plans. Bierma, a former construction worker, said he and his family are looking to expand on Oahu, plus add a second Kapaa location and new eatery in Poipu. “We have so many people that want to franchise our brand in Costa Rica, Japan, California, Oregon — all over the place,” he said. “For now we’re looking at expanding nationally, and first here in the state.” The Hanalei spot is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and until 3 p.m. on Sunday. Info: 823-0780.
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Everything about guns CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY
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onjour lecteurs heureux! Whether you are a gun enthusiast, a collector, a hunter, or a student of history, “The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Guns” covers everything. Competently assembled by longtime historian and museum curator Chuck Willis, the book spans the entire breadth of firearm weaponry from its inception to modern day tools. Chock full of high-quality pictures and expertly detailed descriptions, the book is great for the avid collector, or for the person just getting interested. Muskets, rifles, shotguns, automatic weapons, Glocks, revolvers, you name it, it’s in there.
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production, including directories that are both a comprehensive reference and an easy to use index for the everyday person. Another interesting and useful thing that this book does is organizes each weapon according to country of origin, and features each gun’s technical information along with its military, political and technological uses when each gun was originally developed. For those interested in history, this is a wonderful bonus! One fellow, while going The author treats the subject through the book with his wife, with the utmost respect to their kept pointing at the various guns usage, specifications, craftsin its pages, saying, “Got that one, manship, design, inventors, and that one, that one, have it, have historical significance. it, got it, this is going to be my Guns have been an intricate next one, would love to have part of world history, all the way from the farmers and hunters to that one …” Of course he bought the book! Education is the key to the militias and the military. One of the great things about understanding and a wonderful way to travel the world! how this book is organized is ••• that it introduces readers to key designers and manufacturers and Ed and Cynthia Justus are owners the technology involved in their of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.
support and watch them just fly,” she said. “It’s the best feeling in the world.” Kids, Blachowiak said, are naturally hams. They just need the chance to bring out what’s inside. “They love to dress up in costumes,” she said. “It’s fun for them.” “The keiki on this island are truly magical,” Hanson said. “Here at Summer Stars each student gets their chance to shine, and working on Alice in Wonderland, JR. is a dream come true for me, watching the keiki grow and learn.” Bailey Hutton, morning program director, said the weekly workshops this summer are covering video and camera, puppetry, makeup, special effects, and vocal technique. It’s been “fantastic,” he said. Theater gives youth confidence to be themselves. Imagination and creativity flourish. “I love it,” Hutton said. “You’re cultivating the next generation of artists.” Alice in Wonderland, JR. shows are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday. Choreographer is Patric Knight and musical director is Nina Saraos. Leading the cast of characters is Neva Burkhart playing Alice, Sabryn
Rudinoff as the Mad Hatter, Jaya Griesemer as Mathilda, Jaden April who plays the White Rabbit, and Savannah and Maddison Hubbard as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. The cast also includes Kehaulani Roberts-Duque, Tanner Hubbard, Bailey H.K. Ponce, Sarea Panit, Noah Denbeau, Jacob David Lester, Zeke Gamby, Callie Yavinsky, Barak Aviguetero, Julia Barzilai, Sophia Riley, Parker Reed, Kaile McKeown, Ava Easterly, Zsa Zsa DuBose, Jenny Nezbeda, Katy Hoesel, Daniela Earl, Isaac Dubey, Margaret McLeod, Richelle Agor, Kala’e Abrams, Kolea Rautmann, Caleb Plowman, Jazzy Hanft, Christian Core, Melina Ventura, Conner Green, Jackson Gamby, Kaitlyn Chappelle, Mia Thompson, Jonah Cabello, Kalani Leibow, Elisha Cabello, and Carmen Swanson. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The Summer Stars silent auction and gala performances by those in the morning program is scheduled 7 p.m. Thursday, July 16 at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. Info: 246-8985
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“They each paid,â€? said Jane Gray, director of the Kauai Museum. “And now, the Kauai Foster Grandparents program are entertaining. This is so Kauai.â€? The Kauai Museum hosts a Portuguese Festival from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday celebrating the history and culture of Portugal with a day of food like the malasada, sweet bread, arts and crafts. Call 245-6931 for information.Â
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